<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">BACH
is a loosely-organized association of hackerspaces in the San Francisco
Bay Area. BACH strives to be very thin, with almost no over-head. We
exist to help member spaces coordinate, communicate, and collaborate.
Above all, we support the Bay Area hackerspace community's existent
inter-dependence and resilience. Learn more and find notes on past
roundtables at</span><a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">hackerspaces.org</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">.</span></p>

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Our
next BACH Roundtable will be in September (date TBD) at LOL [Liberating
Ourselves Locally], a people-of-color-led, gender-balanced makerspace
in East Oakland. </span><a href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/bayareahackerspaces" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Subscribe</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> to the mailing list and stay tuned for an announcement with date, time, and address!</span></p>

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">San Leandro Coworking</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> and </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">HayHackers</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">
are exploring the idea of combining forces to represent the middle and
south side east bay. At some later point we can divide and spread across
the land, helping to reach our Fremont hackers closer to where they
live.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Today I Learned is a series of one-off classes and workshops, every Saturday from 2-5pm. Check </span><a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> for the full schedule!</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">A fork of the community education space, Berkeley Biolabs is to be a biotech incubator for therapeutics-based clinical research.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Excellent
LED hacking projects combining electronics and arduino! A skill-share
event took place last Tuesday, August 6th. Among the projects worked on
included a LED matrix display, a VU-type meter and a coat with 200+
LEDs.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">A group of Noisebridgers, the </span><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/DreamTeam" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">DreamTeam</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">, are conducting research and working on projects related to brain computer interfaces.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Some
folks have been working on a brain-computer interface for controlling
MC Hawking, the open source robot currently on loan from Noisebridge.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Juul is building an arcade machine running all free and open source video games, and with a variety of controllers. </span></p>

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Che is building a small mobile greenhouse for growing food, and
previously built a rocket stove at the space:
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Stove_Finished.jpg" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Stove_Finished.jpg</a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">

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Synchrony is building and designing a new device for producing solar
electricity. The cells are more than twice the power of conventional
silicon cells, and this system provides nearly double the electricity
per given area, charges electronics much faster solar, and offers
maximum OFF-GRID INDEPENDENCE.</span></p></li></ul><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Does
your hackerspace have its own general liability insurance? Would you be
interested in pooling to get a better price on a policy, if available?</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Jenny Ryan</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">
(Sudo Room) collected most of these updates by hand. Yes, from each
site, one by one. Deep bows of gratitude for representing everyone so
well.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">